Here's a series of social documentarian photographs that partially illustrate the true position of the "coal boy" out in Pennsylvania... The story appeared in the Scientific American for 28 September 1895--it was not an investigative journalism piece on the working conditions of children, just a simple report on what the children were doing. We're still years away in 1895 from any real legal assistance to protect children as workers or to require them to be in school.They are picking out the pieces of non-combustible slate, a task that will be appreciated by anyone with experience using a wood-burning stove in your home.
If any of you have children who complain about the need to do homework or help with housecleaning chores, just send them this link to inform them of what their great-grandparent's childhood may have been like.
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